Recent content by rickatnight11

Unfortunately, I already reformatted the machines. Thanks for the help, though!

Sounds good. Thanks everyone.

Thanks for the help guys. The Repair option from the DVD only really fixes boot errors. There's no real OS repair like the XP disks have. Out of everything I love about Windows 7, that's pretty unfortunate. He ended up backing everything up and reinstalling Windows. Too bad. I would...

Ah, I see what you mean now. He tried this, but he merely get's the black screen with mouse again. No command prompt loads, nor can he get any other response, such as the Task Manager.

Thanks, Trouble, but that method requires the ability to boot and log into Windows 7, which is the problem he's having.

My buddy came home from Christmas vacation to find his desktop suffering from the Black Screen of Death, but it's acting a bit differently from most people's experience. Same black background with only mouse response, but he never gets to the log in screen He can't launch Task Manager...

Yeah, I may end up doing a reformat. I just wanted to avoid that if I could. I can't tell if it's any particular update because it throws this error before even finishing scanning for updates.

I did mean to say RTM, just that I didn't find out that the RTM release was the same as the retail release I purchased until after performing the upgrade, so I essentially upgraded from the same build to the same build.

I concur that there's a common aspect between both machines. The only common thing I can think of is that both machines had the RTM installed that I upgraded to the retail version. I've tried upgrading the laptop on another network, and I also have a third machine on this network running...

I have yet to find a solution for this. Can anyone help?

Hi, Saltgrass! That's a great feature to know about, as I didn't even think about it. Unfortunately it completed without detecting a problem.

I have two machines, desktop and laptop, both running Windows 7 Build 7600 (64-bit and 32-bit respectively) that just started getting the "Code 80070005" message when running Windows Update. I have seen many others with this issue (apparently it used to be an issue with Vista) but it's...